Tuesday, May 21, 2013. 11:16 PM

My research papers, policy analysis and random thoughts on topics such as crisis, regulations and financial risk.

Jon Danielsson - London School of Economics

On the Impact of Fundamentals, Liquidity and Coordination on Market Stability

Jon Danielsson and Francisco Penaranda
March 2010

We develop a coordination game to model interactions between fundamentals and liquidity during unstable periods in financial markets. We then propose a flexible econometric framework for estimation of the model and analysis of its quantitative implications. The specific empirical application is carry trades in the yen--dollar market, including the turmoil of 1998. We find a generally very deep market, with low information disparities amongst agents. We observe occasionally episodes of market fragility, or turmoil with up by the escalator, down by the elevator patterns in prices. The key role of strategic behavior in the econometric model is also confirmed.